From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 15 06:59:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABC1B37B401 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 06:59:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from catflap.home.slightlystrange.org (pc1-cmbg1-4-cust43.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [62.253.133.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BDFC43F3F for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 06:59:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@slightlystrange.org) Received: from danielby by catflap.home.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 195QyL-000ESD-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 14:59:41 +0100 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 14:59:41 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <20030415135941.GA54835@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <004f01c30354$17edc320$1916c60a@win2k.clickcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <004f01c30354$17edc320$1916c60a@win2k.clickcom.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Scanner: exiscan *195QyL-000ESD-00*EbUHwzCcoUY* (SlightlyStrange.org, Using NOD32 http://www.nod32.com) Subject: Re: Bootup Problem 4.8-Stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: dan@slightlystrange.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 13:59:50 -0000 On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 09:36:55AM -0400, John Straiton wrote: > I have a machine that was working fine but then upon reboot one day it > failed to come up on it's own. I tinkered a little bit and then finally > just settled on trying a make world/kernel. Upon retrying it this > morning I see this right after it detected the CDRom drive (same error > as before): > > Apr 15 13:26:28 init: login_getclass: unknown class 'daemon' > /etc/rc: Can't open /etc/rc: No such file or directory > Apr 15 13:26:28 init: /etc/spwd.db: No such file or directory > Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: > > Then I just > #/sbin/mount /dev/da0s1f /etc > #/sbin/mount -a > #exit > > And we're back up and running. > > Ideas? I couldn't find an example of this question actually being > answered (tho' it's been brought up before) in the list yet. The only > one that seemed answered involved someone who had put /etc on another > drive but as you can see: > > /dev/da0s1a 291M 105M 162M 39% / > /dev/da0s1f 7.1G 26M 6.5G 0% /etc > > Same drive. But, significantly, different partition... -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \